Does the Old Testament matter?
False preachers today want Christians to "unhitch" themselves from the OT. It is very arrogant and wicked to hold that view. In fact anyone who does, is very very highly likely not saved.
The OT right at the beginning reveals Creation, man's sin, the promised Savior, and continues on to point to the Holiness, Justice & Mercy of God, and the sinfulness of man at his core nature. Plus NT reveals the Law (OT) was the schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. How many Christians even understand that the NT didnt actually start until Jesus Ascension? They want to throw out the Gospels and Jesus too. And just hold onto a few bits if wisdom in the NT and thats it. Feel good quotes.
👉These folks who advocate to throw away the OT clearly want to get rid of Jesus too, so they can sin to their hearts content.
Only those who do not understand nor have a basic understanding of God & Jesus in the OT would want to throw it out, for sin reasons and idolatry. They also then dont have to live under Gen 1-11 and can embrace evolution and their own way to Heaven. Let's call them Babelites as they are idolators and wicked people who want to place themselves above Gos and remove God's Word from Scripture to go their own way.
Judges 21:25 In those days ... every man did that which was right in his own eyes. And, Prov. 24:12 says There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Without the OT the NT doesnt make any sense. They were given by God as obe revelation. We dare not even think part of it isnt important or useful. It def is!
We must be careful to handle the entire Bible with care and reverence so as to not distort its entire message nor erase part of what God revealed. Only wicked people want to do that.
Flee from anyone who doesnt think the OT is valid or useful today.
Matthew 24:35
Jesus said, Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
1 Peter 1:25
But "the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Revelation 22:18-19
“For I testify together to everyone who hears the Words of the prophecy of this Book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add on him the plagues that have been written in this Book. And if anyone takes away from the Words of the Book of this prophecy, God will take away his part out of the Book of Life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which have been written in this Book.”
The principle applies to anyone who seeks to intentionally distort God’s Word. Moses gave a similar warning in Deuteronomy 4:1-2, where he cautioned the Israelites that they must listen to and obey the commandments of the Lord, neither adding to nor taking away from His revealed Word. Proverbs 30:5-6 contains a similar admonition to anyone who would add to God’s words: he will be rebuked and proven to be a liar. The warning in Revelation 22:18-19 in the last book in Scripture must also be applied to the entire revealed Word of God.
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